Dear readers: A select number of you have not only enjoyed reading our stories, you have won auctions and obtained actual Significant Objects. A Google News Alert received today at S.O. Headquarters (South) leads to this vital information from an … Continue reading
When I was at SXSW, earlier this year, I met Raina Lee, author of Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Ultimate Guide To Karaoke Domination. She told me about this blog she was starting, the Infinite Garage Project. The … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Dan Chaon, Colleen Werthmann, Christine Hill, Charles Baxter, Bob Powers. This is the eleventh installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in the Significant … Continue reading
Case Studies in Successful Self-Publishing: "To Slow Down the Time" – The Awl http://t.co/DCKSx6I # Horse Bust + Beth Lisick story, our last Root Division-benefit auction. Heating up, ends today. http://bit.ly/blKnf5 # Marriage, Memories, and 'The Morning News': Rosecrans Baldwin … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Douglas Wolk, Dan Reines, Deb Olin, David Shields, Doug Dorst. *** This is the tenth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in the … Continue reading
Emily Spivack writes to let us know about Worn Stories, a website where she’s publishing stories about clothing and memory. She explains: “Every item of clothing we wear has a story behind it — perhaps it was passed on to … Continue reading
Sounds like things went pretty well at our debut live event out in San Francisco, at least if our friends and contacts are to be believed: “It was fantastic! Loved it. Huge crowd, super fun.” “Not sure how to explain … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Jason Grote, J. Robert Lennon, Helen DeWitt, Greg Rowland, Ed Park. *** This is the ninth installment in a series of twenty posts announcing — in no particular order — which 100 stories will be collected in … Continue reading
Big thanks to all who came out to our Litquake / Lit Crawl event at Root Division! Thanks also to all our participating writers, and supsersize thanks to Rob Baedeker for hosting duties, and for wearing a super-suede suit! We’ll … Continue reading
Let me say it again with the right hashtag: Our first ever live event TONIGHT, part of @litquake. Details: http://bit.ly/dtAM6f #LitCrawl # Our first ever live event TONIGHT, part of @litquake. Details: http://bit.ly/dtAM6f #litquake # "4" Angel + Story by … Continue reading
You must attend the first-ever S.O. live event! Reading live (in alphabetical order): Rob Baedeker, Chris Colin, Beth Lisick, Miranda Mellis, and Katie Williams. Followed by the first-ever Object slam, your chance to invent Significance for an object to be … Continue reading
That’s right, readers. Starting in a matter of hours we’ll publishing one all-new Significant Objects story each day this week, all leading up to the first-ever S.O. live event, in San Francisco. Please alert your friends! Our contributors this time … Continue reading
NYC folks: Go to the release event for @jimhanas collection “Why They Cried.” http://bit.ly/a60jvy Sounds fun! # Very large book cover archive: http://bookcoverarchive.com/ # New Republic looking for “literary intern.” http://bit.ly/cDFWzT # Books added to our “store” all the time. … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Kathryn Davis, Jonathan Lethem, Joe Lyons, Jim Shepard, Jennifer Michael Hecht. UPCOMING EVENT: On October 9th (from 6-7 p.m. at San Francisco’s Root Division, as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl), SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: … Continue reading
Lyall Watson was a South African-born botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, zoo keeper and BBC presenter who wrote Supernature: A Natural History of the Supernatural (1973), among other popular books that helped usher in the Seventies’ New Age trend. Among other … Continue reading
IN THIS POST: Margaret Wertheim, Lydia Millet, Lucinda Rosenfeld, Luc Sante, Kevin Brockmeier. UPCOMING EVENT: On October 9th (from 6-7 p.m. at San Francisco’s Root Division, as part of Litquake’s Litcrawl), SIGNIFICANT OBJECTS will present its first live event: An … Continue reading
The first-ever Significant Objects live event, part of Litquake in San Francisco, will of course include fantastic all-new stories, read live by five of our esteemed contributors, breathing fresh Significance into a new batch of objects hand-picked by this project’s … Continue reading
